[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago

Even the launch version of HL1 was a great game but gosh, were Valve a crappy company back then. HL1 shipped with a bunch of trailers, so far, so good. But update patches contained mandatory new trailers. That was dialup era and downloading the updates cost much more money because of those stupid trailers. Then came Steam and made it worse. Imagine the pushback to ads in Windows 10 but add to the annoyance the fact that the annoyances also cost money. Broadband was still just getting started. My family certainly couldn't afford it and they could even less so afford me being online on dialup all the time. So my more wealthy friend passed me CDs with the last non-Steam updates, mods like Counter Strike. Me having been a dumb kid would have ruined my family's livelihood otherwise.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Personally, I dislike that Nobara is relying on patched Mesa and kernel versions. This is unnecessary risk of instability. AFAIK Bazzite doesn't do that.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

They weren't laid off yet when they killed support for Rollerdome and Ollie Ollie World.

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That's one way to react when a commentator criticizes an underperforming driver... And I used to think he's wholesome...

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No further action for Tsunoda leaving the grid during the aborted start.

The wording suggests Norris won't get the same outcome, though

https://x.com/ChrisMedlandF1/status/1853206846925864998

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[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 145 points 3 weeks ago

The main failing here in the US though is that rail maintenance falls to rail companies that have little financial incentives to spend the money on safety. That may be changing, however if the federal government just hands over money with inadequate oversight it will just enrich the companies.

Sounds almost as if critical infrastructure should be owned by the public.

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[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 143 points 3 months ago

Spoiler: if you don’t advertise at all, people won’t play your game

Also:

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 178 points 3 months ago

I am once again begging Framework to just give us a damn regular DPI display that works!

Bottom Skinner is right, though. It's 2024. HiDPI has to be supported by all toolkits, desktops, and applications at this point. There are no excuses. Even 1080p on a 14" laptop screen warrants 125% scaling, IMO.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 342 points 6 months ago

Some information in the documents appears to be in conflict with public statements by Google representatives

I would have never guessed that.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 149 points 6 months ago

What Apple did for Macs when switching architectures, though, was to port their own software to the new architecture. Microsoft doesn't even port fucking Minesweeper to ARM.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 122 points 9 months ago

Fuck Brave and fucks its owner Brendan Eich.

Don't promote that despicable company in any way.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 387 points 10 months ago

Shoutout to screenshot tools

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 222 points 1 year ago

Wait, the mod removed the option to set a gender in the character editor? Why don't these people just make a male character and be done with it?

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 280 points 1 year ago

They turned off ads? Great. Can that be a standoff that lasts forever?

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